When did my life become Glee?
So, this morning I was teaching a media class and the topic was radio. I decided that I’d start the class by playing the song Video Killed...
Best Funny Student Analogies
Found online: Annual English Teachers’ awards for best student metaphors/analogies found in actual student papers: His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants...
Father puts catching fly ball over daughter.
Watch in the top left of the screen to catch what happened. Basically, the father jumped up to catch a fly ball, forgetting his young daughter was...
Webcomic- Teach English in Japan
Ahh, memories. ^_^ This is very similar how I ended up teaching in Japan the first time. A call, an easy interview, a few goodbye parties, and...
Review- Terra Nova (TV series)
I’ll keep it short and sweet, especially since Terra Nova isn’t worth a lot of ink. (Virtual or otherwise.) The show looks amazing, but in actual execution...
Toronto Comic Book Shop Claims to Be World’s First for Kids
A new comic store focussed on kids has opened up in Toronto, which I think is a great idea. It’s ironic, I spent most of my teen...
80’s NY Horror Host Morgus shows Godzilla
Ahh, I love old horror hosts. I grew up on Elvira, Superhost from Cleveland (WUAB!) and of course MST3K. This video from the Internet Archive (courtesy Bill...
The Inuyama Rebellion- Part Twelve
The lord of the Kurokawa was starting to grow weary of debating with this tiresome samurai and considered whether the wait was really worth the trouble. “Your...
Astoundingly cool (and incredibly huge!) picture of the Solar System!
An amazing picture of the Solar System. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Systemesolaire2.jpg This thing is about 10 screens wide, so if it just looks like a tiny line at the top...
The 1,000 Words Rule of Blogging (Book Excerpt) – Boing Boing
I’d say this is good advice for writers in general. I myself need to really work on this. :-/ This word count is not impossible. It’s about...